Guangzhou Airlab Co. Ltd spent nearly one year to build a community of
over 8,000 engineers to facilitate the efficient application of newly
imported technologies in Chinese manufacturing enterprises, saving them
a great deal of money, work force and time while achieving desired
results.

China boasts the most versatile industry system covering all industrial
categories listed by the United Nations, including 39 major categories,
191 sub-categories and 525 sub-classes. However, it is large yet not
strong: in 2016, China’s gross import value amounted to USD 1,587.48
billion, among which the industrial import value was USD 1,177.33
billion, accounting for as high as 74.2% of the total.

The manufacturing industry now is experiencing a reversed transmission
of pressure, in that the downstream enterprises urge upstream
enterprises to upgrade their technologies to meet demands from the
downstream markets and fence off overseas rivals.

Technology innovation is difficult, and so is technology import for
Chinese enterprises in an attempt to upgrade the manufacturing industry.
One of the bottlenecks lies in the application of the foreign
technologies in the typical Chinese enterprises and market.

This is what repeatedly happens when a foreign technology is imported to
China -- the Chinese production team and the foreign technical team
blame each other over the application issues, which leads to a slowed
production process or even a standstill and ultimately costs the Chinese
enterprises much more money, work force and time than expected while
failing to yield desired results.

These problems in the application and integration of the imported
technologies are still bothering most Chinese entrepreneurs and
reformists. Fortunately, compared to foreign technology innovators,
Chinese engineers know better how to adapt and innovate technologies
based on China’s unique market demand, and many of them have proved it
with successful cases.

Tommy Lin, Founder of Airlab, has been involved in multiple cases in
which imported technologies were adapted, innovated and optimized to
suit the need of China’s manufacturing upgrade. For example, his team
introduced the multi-functional polyester resin newly developed by
Bostik to China and created application projects such as reflective
materials, FPC and solar backsheets for different application scenarios.

Airlab’s creative and approachable community can well serve as a
lubricant for Chinese manufacturing enterprises to smoothly integrate
with overseas technologies. With a knowledge of the bottlenecks of
China’s manufacturing upgrade, the underlying reasons for the imported
technology application issues and the value of the innovative engineers,
Airlab will leverage the innovative power of the engineer community to
accelerate China’s manufacturing update and seek mutual benefits for
both Chinese and overseas manufacturing industries.